Honoring a traitor. Sickening.
Ronald Radosh
The Wall Street Journal
September 30, 2015
The New York City Council issued a proclamation Monday honoring Ethel Rosenberg on what would have been the convicted Soviet spy's 100th birthday. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer joined the festivities, declaring Sept. 28 "Ethel Rosenberg Day of Justice in the Borough of Manhattan." ...
The real stain is on New York City's gullible representatives. Revelations over the past 20 years--the Venona decrypts of KGB transmissions to its American agents in the 1940s, and KGB files released by a Russian defector who now lives in Britain, Alexander Vassiliev--showed concretely Ethel's involvement in her husband's espionage ring. For six decades, her defenders have insisted that Ethel was an innocent bystander, at worst a bit player, but the evidence shows her thorough involvement. She helped recruit her sister-in-law, Ruth, who in turn brought her husband--Ethel's brother-- David Greenglass into the ring that passed secrets to KGB courier Harry Gold ...
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